4 Corpus FEUP/IPB-DB Texts were extracted from Portuguese newspapers containing all types of sentences. Read speech from professional male speaker in a regular broadcast studio. Speech ratio of. phonemes/sec. Manually labelled DB in 3 levels: Segments of phonemes and pauses tonic syllable in the word Word boundaries Phrase boundaries (including all punctuation marks) Training set - 6 tracks total of 8 minutes of speech Test set track total of 4 minutes of speech. Example can be found in

7 Pre-processing Syllabification Applied to phonemes sequences error =.89% Applied to text error =.6% Intonation groups Simple rules without knowledge of syntax and semantic: Group of words with more than syllables in total. Group never ends with words of less than 3 phonemes. Phrase marks are always group boundaries. Last tonic syllable is the group accent. Example: É a guerra declarada, entre a Distrital socialista de Portalegre, liderada por Ceia da Silva, e a concelhia de Elvas, presidida por Rondão de Almeida.

8 Set of Features Feature - Codification # nodes Segment Identity of Distance to tonic syllable coded in 5 levels Previous segment (-) of Next segment (+) of Next segment (+) of 4 4 Next segment (+3) of Distance to next pause number of segments Position in phrase from beginning and end of phrase Position in group from beginning and end of group Type of vowel length in syllable coded in 5 levels Length of the accent group number of syllables and phonemes Position of accent group in sentence first; other; last. 3 Suppression or non-suppression of last vowel yes/not Type of syllable coded in 9 levels Type of previous syllable coded in 9 levels Type of vowel in previous syllable - coded in 5 levels Type of vowel in next syllable coded in 5 levels Correlation r. to to.3.5 to.8.8 to.4.5 to...4 to.4.3 to.5..3 to.5. to

19 Conclusions Neural Network model to predict segmental durations. Objective evaluation gives an r =.84 and σ = 9.5 ms. Subjective evaluation gives a score of 4. against 4.3 for original and 3.53 for the average durations. More Linguistic information may possible improve the model. Considering the applicability to TTS systems, differences less than cycle ( ms) are irrelevant in voiced sounds. Major errors happen in very long sounds.

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